Homeless in RI: Updates at 43 degrees, with winter 45 days away

An apartment building in Rhode Island with a parking lot in the background.

Update from Rhode Island Housing: RI Housing has hired a new communications liaison – Patti Doyle. Doyle provided this update to RINewsToday: Pallet Shelters: “We have not confirmed a location for the pallet shelters as of this writing.  We are looking at sites in both Providence and Pawtucket. The Newport Avenue site is not being…

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Homeless in RI: State’s new strategy. Shelters, housing, prevention, expansion, collaboration

A bench is sitting in the middle of a park with autumn leaves.

Alongside faith and community leaders, state issues call to action for continued partnership and progress in preventing and addressing homelessness. Governor Dan McKee and Housing Secretary Stefan Pryor today outlined Rhode Island’s strategy for addressing homelessness through expanded shelter options and other services as winter approaches. Anchored around prevention, expansion and collaboration, the state’s strategy already…

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Homeless in RI: (update) Encampment news – Staffing changes – $10M to 27 – Housing jobs …

A bench in a park.

Update Sept. 30th Providence individual camping for “years” near the Orms Street/Marriott Hotel removed Providence had notified Michael Nugent, who has been living in an ever-growing, single-person encampment near the Marriott Hotel and the Orms Street exit from Route 95 North that he must vacant state land by 11am Friday, September 29th. The written notification…

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Homeless in RI: State funds $10 Million to 27 providers for shelter, services as cold weather looms

The cloudy sky.

Wednesday morning, Rhode Island Housing announced new grants that have been made to address the homeless issue in the state – their announcement: Rhode Island Department of Housing Announces $10 Million in Awards to Prevent and Respond to Homelessness First round of determinations of funding for the FY24 Consolidated Homeless Fund have been issued to…

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In the Arena: Eric Hirsch, advocate for homeless, PC professor

A homeless man with glasses and a mustache is talking.

Homelessness in Rhode Island is one of the major issues of the time. Today, Joe Paolino Jr. host of “In the Arena” interviews Eric Hirsch, a homeless advocate and co-chair of the Homeless Management Information System Steering Committee. They discuss the housing shortage, affordable housing at high interest rates, rental issues, pallet housing, NIMBY issues,…

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